Dash
8
Babies in 2024
+167%
10-year change
2017
Peak · 11
+60%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Dash
Dash is a relative newcomer in UK boys' names — first appearing in ONS records for England & Wales in 2014. In 2024, 8 boys were registered with the name.
Dash reached its peak in 2017, when 11 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #2,052 for UK boys that year. It has only been on UK records for a relatively short stretch.
Across 9 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 53 boys have been officially registered with the name Dash in England & Wales. Dash first appears on the published list in 2014 at #4,632.